Mountain gorillas

Back to "civilisation"?

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September 1st 2007
As you might imagine my travels in Africa have reached an end and I have made it home safe and sound. The caption for this entry is intended utterly sarcastically--nearly four months in Africa and the worst thing that happened was someone tried--vainly!--to pickpocket me at the Lilongwe market. The second I make it to Rome my passport is stolen! As a result I missed all my flights and spent mor ... read more

Europe » Italy

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more